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I decided to play about in open tunings. One of my favourite songwriters, Paul Westerberg, apparently uses Open F#, open G and open A a lot.

So, I tuned down to open F# and learned a song, then I went on to a song in open G. I stuck a capo on the first fret, but that's not the version of open G the tab I'm looking at is written for.

I found one in open A and stuck a capo on the 3rd fret - same problem.

A bit disappointed that my master plan didn't work out. Are there standard versions of each open tuning? Is this variation just the result of it being really difficult to figure out how to play songs in open tunings, and people getting it a little wrong?

I would've guessed you'd pick a set

The Whitey Album was in my dad's record collection. In my youth I put it on at a party and someone actually whiteyed. True story.

In a bathroom that no longer exists, in my parents' house, I notice 3 wires coming out of my stomach/chest connected to a little grey "computer box" that looks a little like a big hard drive with a few buttons. I'm a little hysterical and go to show my mum. She says I've had those for ages and I worry about having some kind of memory loss problem.

Later, my girlfriend pulls them out accidentally while trying to hug me. An alarm goes off - the one on the left of my stomach goes into a little black box that is attached to my heart. The wires are taking readings of my heart and contents of my gut, I think. My girlfriend wants to call an ambulance but I plug them back in. The other two wires, m

I'm having my first listen now.

Quickies is out today, listening to it now.